Jared Leto reveals that he hasn't watched one of his own movies in 22 years while promoting Morbius. Leto has appeared in TV and movies since the early 90s, but it wasn't until his role in Requiem for A Dream in 2000 that the actor became more widely known. Since starring in the raw Darren Aronofsky story of drug addiction, the actor would go on to appear in a variety of projects, ranging from contained thrillers like Panic Room to Oscar-winners like Dallas Buyers Club, to big-budget comic book fare like Suicide Squad. The actor was most recently seen in Ridley Scott's House of Gucci as Paolo Gucci.
Leto has now appeared as the Joker in two films and his take remains one of the more divisive versions of the iconic character. 2016's Suicide Squad was almost universally panned but the actor would reprise his role for a cameo at the end of Zack Snyder's Justice League in 2021, which saw a more positive audience reaction. Leto is next slated to appear as the titular character in Morbius, which tells the story of a biochemist who accidentally becomes a vampire after attempting to cure himself of a rare blood disease. While the film has yet to be officially released, reactions to early screenings have been mostly negative.
In a new interview on UK's Radio X with host Chris Moyles as part of the actor's Morbius press circuit, Leto reveals that he hasn't watched one of his own movies in 22 years. Leto explains that the last time he watched one of his own movies was at Cannes in 2000 when Aronofsky made him sit through a screening of Requiem for A Dream.
While Leto doesn't explain why he refuses to watch his own movies, he's certainly far from the only actor to do so. Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, and others have all mentioned at one point or another that they don't like to watch themselves on screen. For some, it appears to be a matter of avoiding picking apart their own work and looking for flaws, while to others it would seem to be a matter of just not feeling comfortable watching themselves in character. Leto could have any number of reasons for not wanting to watch any of his previous films, but it sounds like Aronofsky didn't give him much choice back in 2000.
Leto, famously, takes a very method approach to acting and made headlines in 2016 for his questionable behavior behind-the-scenes of Suicide Squad. It's possible that, after putting so much of himself into each role that he plays that watching the movie would somewhat diminish the experience of transformation for Leto. Regardless of the reasoning behind the decision, it's a shame that Leto won't get to see some of the better movies he's involved in like Dallas Buyers Club or Blade Runner 2049. Of course, there are also a few that he's probably better off for not having seen, Suicide Squad being at the top of the list. Initial reactions would suggest that Morbius might also fall into that category.
Source: Radio X
